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Carl Miller

Carl Miller is the research director of the Centre for the Analysis of
Social Media and author of The Death of the Gods: the new global power grab

September 2020

  • Participants in a g0v event.

    The upside
    How Taiwan's 'civic hackers' helped find a new way to run the country

    New social media platform vTaiwan cuts through noise and trolling to establish consensus – and create new laws

July 2019

  • Donald Trump<br>President Donald Trump speaks during the “Presidential Social Media Summit” in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, July 11, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

    Trump’s summit shows he needs the tech giants as much as they need him

    Carl Miller
    The White House social-media conference showed that big tech’s power will not be diminished any time soon, says technology writer Carl Miller

May 2019

  • Nigel Farage

    The real – and sinister – reason Nigel Farage is spouting conspiracy theories

    Carl Miller
    He and others like him seek to exploit voters’ deepest fears about the ruling order and take power for themselves, says author Carl Miller

September 2015

  • Tracking IS online<br>File photo dated 06/08/13 of someone using a laptop. Internet investigators have described how they are locked in a "cat and mouse game" with Islamic State as they attempt to dismantle the terrorist group's vast and fluid online propaganda machine. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Monday September 7, 2015. Officers face a "huge challenge" as thousands of supporters and operatives shift from one platform to another, according to a senior expert on a specialist European unit established to target terrorist material on social media and other sites. The Press Association has learned the EU Internet Referral Unit (EU IRU) has identified 500 pieces of content, mostly relating to IS, in the two months since it was set up by Europol in July. See PA story POLICE Internet. Photo credit should read: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

    Datablog
    Separating the truth from the buzz in social media

    A research paper has been launched looking at just how representative social media is. Here its authors explain why it is important to ask that question

December 2014

  • George Osborne delivering the government's autumn statement.

    Show and tell
    What can Twitter's reaction to the UK autumn statement tell us?

    Researchers from Demos and Ipsos Mori have worked together in analysing social reaction to political events

May 2011

  • Dominique Strauss-Kahn

    Conspiracy theorists, stop asking 'who benefits'

    Carl Miller and Matthew Moran
    Carl Miller and Matthew Moran: From Barack Obama 'birthers' to Osama bin Laden 'deathers', we have become high priests of one question – cui bono
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